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I've seen the use of the "crazy sjw feminist" stereotype from gamergate days die down a little but one thing that remains ever present is the way fat activists are treated. Anything they say is dismissed and ridiculed, they have insults hurled at them with so much cruelty and disdain. The moment a fat person asks any group of people to change their worldview on fatness, it's immediate insults and brick walls. This includes left leaning people. Everyone loves to gang up on fat people, it hasn't changed a bit.
I find that left-leaning people almost always justify their fat bigotry in science-y terms (not actual science on fatness, which they never know anything about when questioned), and right-leaning people in terms of character traits they believe are associated with fatness.
To me, it's all excuses to keep enjoying higher social status and apparent moral superiority for the non-act of existing in a thin(ner) body, or having lost weight. In other words, people are addicted to their thin privilege and are not about to let reason stand in the way of their enjoyment of said thin privilege.
Yeah, I find that thin leftists predictably buy into the “obesogenic environment” (what Cat Pause called the “poor fatties can’t help but make unhealthy decisions”) theory, and will outright say “once we make the world a better place fat people will stop existing!”
Which both ignores that body variation is natural and there will always be some fat people, and ends up positioning being fat as the worst thing in the world and the driving reason for change. All of the things that are advocated for under this umbrella (better access to a wide variety of food, exercising in a way you enjoy, less crushing work days, etc) are good things in and of themselves! You don’t have to argue that they’re good because they get rid of fat people, and if you frame that as their main benefit you’re doing everyone a disservice.
CNTW is for warnings, not ratings.
It’s when you:
- object to being told what warnings to use
- don’t want to argue about whether your dubcon counts as noncon
- aren’t sure whether your dubcon counts as noncon
- don’t want to label your 16-year-old UK characters getting it on as ‘underage’ just because the US cares about 18 rather than 16
- don’t want to spoil whether someone dies
- want to scare off readers who require warnings
- etc.
There are lots of reasons to use it. “This fic is super dark” is a common but unintended one.
CNTW refers only to the required archive warnings of underage, noncon, graphic violence, and character death. It means “I refuse to specify yes or no”, nothing more.
‘phantom pains’, caitlin conlon // ‘what i could never confess without some bravado’, emily palermo // ‘i will’, mitski // ‘a self-portrait in letters’, anne sexton // ‘desperation sits heavy on my tongue’, @/tullipsink // ‘hunger makes me’, jess zimmerman // ‘coffee and cigarettes’, sade andria zabala
